New Delhi (8 December 2011): Maulana Mohd. Ali Jauhar Award to Jagdish Tytler, an accused of 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom, is an insult to the award. Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar was a key figure of the Indian freedom movement, a leader of the Khilafat movement and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia. Hence, it is sad that the name of Maulana Mohd. Ali Jauhar is being misused. We are sure this is not how he would have liked his name to be remembered, and that he would not have approved of being used to white-wash the sins of a politician who was part of communal violence and mayhem in the capital of India.

The ‘logic’, extended by the organiser and some of the awardees, since no court of law has found Tytler ‘guilty’ till date, there nothing wrong in honouring him is really farce. Should we understand, it is like since no court of law has found Narendra Modi ‘guilty’ till date for Gujarat genocide against Muslim, there is no harm in honouring him as well? Like Modi’s role in Gujarat Genocide, the role Tytler in the anti-Sikh pogrom of 1984 is an open secret.

It is also regrettable that an award being given by some of the members of a minority (Muslim) community is honouring someone who has played a key role in the victimisation of another religious (Sikh) minority. It should also be a matter of shame for those who are sharing it with him. If the Citizens, especially Muslim awardees, are so insensitive towards the Sikh community, it is a matter of great shame.

While we condemn the organiser for choosing Tytler among the list of awardees, we also condemn India Islamic Cultural Centre, New Delhi, for hosting it. And once again appeals to the distinguished individuals, who are participating in this function either as an awardees or guest, to boycott it as a matter of protest.

By Sayema Sahar,

“Narendra Modi is the worst form of human material walking on this planet earth,” says a senior IPS Officer of Gujarat cadre, at present on deputation in New Delhi. Indeed a very strong statement for the poster boy of BJP by an aware, responsible and extremely efficient police officer of India!

The Gujarat genocide, planned and executed by Modi, brought a scale of atrocity which was never previously known. The statistics of Gujarat carnage, by far, is the most heinous atrocity in all recorded history of independent India.

Modi’s conduct, during and after the riots, was partisan, communal and influenced by political and communal agenda. All of us here, on the threshold of the 10th anniversary of 2002 carnage, are waiting to see Modi’s acts of omission and commission getting nailed in a court of law.

Pradeep Sharma and Kuldeep Sharma (Photo Courtesy - Indian Express)

Sharma Brothers vs Narendra Modi – Victimization saga continues

This blatant arrogant use of power to thwart truth and democracy must stop.

Mr. Modi, you owe an explanation to me, to my readers and to all those who love their freedom and their country and more than us, to the ghosts of 2002 carnage; the frail ghosts, the pregnant ghosts, the faceless ghosts of the bodies charred beyond recognition.

Mr. Modi, you owe an explanation to all the nameless ghosts who wander through the land of Gandhi awaiting justice. Do you ever get to hear the curse and bellows of the unborn babies who were killed in the womb of their mothers? How do you sleep in peace is what I wonder.

And yet Modi boasts of praises, accolades and appreciation galore! All minds must be blurred and darkened to be praising such a ruthless, arrogant and selfish man.

What is being overlooked is the fact that Gujarat has always been a progressive and prosperous state, with a generally peaceful law and order situation with high levels of public safety for many decades before Modi’s time. Actually, both Modi and the BJP are (mis)using Gujarat’s tradition of relative peace and prosperity as Modi’s poster child for political capital.

Modi has very immaculately ensured the suspension of human rights through anti-minority pogroms and then demonized the social activists whoever tried to speak about his misdeeds. His policy has been very simple: crush the identity of minorities beyond recognition, so that they can never dare to speak against him or his atrocities and persecute any and every officer working under the constitutional framework, and refused to be party to the planners and perpetrators of violence during the riots.

This is exactly what he did when he orchestrated the 2002 carnage of Gujarat, where he completely silenced the minority by his terror keeping alive his parallel strategy of putting all officers of state in place by persecuting them in false concocted charges. Modi could not stand any officer who was upright, and who did not collaborate in anti minority action. Fortunately for Gujarat, and for India but unfortunately for Modi the number of such officers is really significant in Modi’s land.

Modi’s script of victimizing such officers, is so overused that it gets easy to predict his line of action when he picks on any officer. First, harassment and threats followed by cases and charge sheet and finally the arrest. Modi has followed this script on many officers in Gujarat. Pradeep Sharma an IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, is one such officer. Pradeep Sharma also happens to be the younger brother of an equally dynamic and popular IPS officer Mr. Kuldip Sharma, again from Gujarat cadre.

Mr. Kuldip Sharma was targeted by Modi’s government as he did not abide by the illegal instructions of him and the then Minister of State (Home), Amit Shah. The Chief Minister downgraded the ACRs of Mr. Kuldip Sharma with the mala fide intention of denying him promotion.

Mr. Kuldip Sharma was privy to the involvement of one of Modi’s ministers in a criminal conspiracy. In fact during the carnage of 2002 Pradeep Sharma got a call from Modi to ask his brother Mr. Kuldip Sharma to go slow on rioters. Kuldip Sharma had also alleged that Modi and former Home Minister Amit Shah put pressure on him to arrest danseuse Mallika Sarabhai in an alleged human trafficking case.

Mr. Pradeep Sharma’s case is a sad tale of the obscenely rampant subversion of the rule of law and a person’s democratic rights by the Modi government for petty personal politics with the Sharma brothers. All the cases hence got registered against Pradeep Sharma at the behest of the Chief Minister to falsely implicate and persecute him and to deprive him of his personal life and liberty. He is at present in jail for over 10 months apparently on a false case of land scam though the fact of the matter is that all his decisions and actions were within the state government guidelines and vetted and officially approved by the highest authorities in Gandhinagar.

Mr. Pradeep Sharma has an unblemished record of outstanding performance throughout his career. He has received numerous accolades for his work including the President’s Medal from the Republic of Poland for proactive collaboration on joint urban development projects in Jamnagar, Gujarat, between 2001 and 2003 where he served as the Municipal Commissioner.

His seminal contribution to rebuilding Bhuj city and the rest of Kutch district after the devastating 2001 earthquake in that region was applauded both nationally and internationally, by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the BBC as well as the domestic media including India Today and Indian Express. His tireless efforts in rebuilding the district of Kutch in 2004 and 2005, has been really commendable.

Mr. Pradeep Sharma in his writ petition states that the persecution unleashed on him by the state chief minister, Mr. Narendra Modi is essentially due to two major reasons apart from host of other supporting factors:

Firstly, the Petitioner happens to be the younger brother of Kuldip Sharma, a highly-decorated and currently the senior-most IPS officer in the Gujarat state cadre, who has unmasked many misdeeds of Narendra Modi since the 2002 Godhra riots and also of his henchman Shri Amit Shah, the ex-Home Minister of State, Gujarat. The two siblings have very close to each other right from childhood and share very strong fraternal bonds.

Secondly and more immediately the petitioner is suspected of having stumbled upon some intimate secrets of Narendra Modi’s illicit escapades with a woman.

To be continued…

(The writer is a Delhi-based journalist, can be contacted on sayemasahar@rediffmail.com)

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Deoband hits back, rejects “baseless” charge of radicalizing Muslim youth

New Delhi: Darul Uloom Deoband, the centuries old Islamic seminary of the Indian subcontinent, has strongly objected to the allegations about the seminary getting funds from the Saudi government and it being a source of radicalization of Muslim youths in India.

Darul Uloom Deoband

Talking to TwoCircles.net from Deoband, Maulana Qasim Nomani, the Rector of Darul Uloom, rejected the charges leveled against the seminary by All Indian Ulema & Mashaikh Board (AIUMB). The AIUMB, which claims to be a Sufi group, had alleged that seminaries like Darul Uloom Deoband get funds from Saudi Arab and radicalize Muslim youths, poisoning their minds by Islamic extremism.

Politics, not Sufism

Hitting out at the AIUMB, Nomani accused the AIUMB of playing politics in the garb of Sufism.

“These people claim to be Sufi but Sufism was the last thing they practiced. You tell me if you find any thing remotely related to Sufism in their speeches. Sufis never call others Kafir but this is the favorite pastime of these groups,” said Nomani.

Darul Uloom reactor also said that the AIUMB needs to come out clean when it comes to its secular credentials as it hasn’t condemned the terrorism propagated by the RSS and Narendra Modi.

“These groups have always sent soft feelers to the Hindutva forces and they did that again when AIUMB talked of being soft on Modi who should be in jail for supervising genocide of Muslims,” said Maulana Nomani.

He said that, “mainstream media in India, is known for ignoring problems of the Muslim community but what you need to question is that why is it, that you find this group being covered on the front page of every news paper?.”

Nomani said that it was Darul Uloom which gave Fatwa against terrorism and it was all because of this fatwa that the media, to a large extent, changed the pattern of covering bomb blasts and Muslim community.

“The charge that Deoband is spreading Islamic extremism, is as ridiculous and baseless as it can be. People shouldn’t forget that Darul Uloom was the first among Islamic seminaries in India to condemn terrorism in all and every forms. Thanks to our Fatwa against terror, that the media changed its attitude towards Muslims vis-à-vis terror attacks and bomb blasts,” said Maulana Nomani.

On Saudi funds

Nomani said that the seminary has never accepted and in future also, will never accept funds from any government sources, be it Saudi Arab or the government of India or any state government in the country. He claimed that accepting no government funds is one of the eight basic rules governing Darul Uloom, and this was actually the last will of its founder, Maulana Qasim Nanutwi.

Regarding the charges of Saudi funds as AIUMB’s desperate attempts for cheap publicity, Nomani said that government aid was one of the reasons why the seminary and the entire Deoband fraternity, didn’t accept the Central government proposal of Central Madarsa Board as government aid was the Board’s prominent feature.

“How can we go against the vision of our elders? From the very first day of its establishment, Darul Uloom has never accepted and will never accept government funds because it’s against the basic rules which govern this Madarsa,” added Maulana Nomani.

On being Anti-Sufi

Maulana Nomani was surprised when this correspondent asked if Deoband was anti-Sufi. Claiming that Darul Uloom Deoband is part and parcel of Sufi tradition in India, he said that Deoband scholars like Ashraf Ali Thanwi, and others were Sufi saints as well and they had their Khanqahs (Sufi hospice).

“Who said we are against Sufism? We very much follow the Sufi traditions and all of our elders were Sufi practitioners of Sufi tradition,” Nomani added.

Maulana Nomani said that there are four schools of thoughts in Sufism in India — Qadri, Chishti, Naqshbandi and Suharwardy — and claimed that most of the teachers at Darul Uloom are associated with one of these schools.

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IITs cry for IITian Kejriwal, but silent for 4 victimized IITians of Gujarat

New Delhi: IITs and its several alumni associations have been crying for IITian Arvind Kejriwal and his Team Anna but no IIT or alumni association has so far paid even lip service for four brilliant IITians of Gujarat who are being victimized by Chief Minister Narendra Modi for not toeing to his diktats.

Sanjiv Bhatt, Rahul Sharma, Satish Verma, Dr Mukul Sinha

IITian Ahmad Cameron (IIT Delhi) has highlighted this fact and expressed his shock over the cold attitude of IITs and alumni associations of IITians towards IITians Sanjiv Bhatt, Rahul Sharma, Satish Verma and Dr Mukul Sinha. They are not supporting the four even though they are under threat from Modi just because they boldly tried to uphold the Constitution of India. But the same IITs and IITians associations are crying from rooftop for IITian Kejriwal.

“It is shocking to find not one of the IITs or any of its alumni associations inside or outside India had the same morality & ethics to stand up in support of Sanjiv Bhatt, Rahul Sharma, Satish Verma and Dr Mukul Sinha [all IITians] who need this support most today the way they did for Arvind Kejriwal and his team Anna,” IITian Ahmad Cameron wrote in a letter he sent to IITs and IIT alumni associations in India and abroad.

Cameron himself gives the reason about why IITs are silent for victimized IITians of Gujarat and also asks if raising voice for these four is not far more important.

“Reason is simple – These fours are under threat for their lives after taking the criminal Chief Minister Narender Modi head on by adhering to the Constitution of India they have been sworn to protect and preserve. While Kejriwal is under no such threat. All IITs stood up in his team’s support which was the right thing to do at that instance. Isn`t raising voices of support for these four IITians far more important, urgent and need of the hour?” Cameron, who works in Canada, wrote.

Text of the Letter

To,
The Directors of IITs,
Presidents of IIT Alumni Associations in India,
Presidents of IIT Alumni Associations Outside India
My Fellow IITians,

Dear Directors of IITs, Alumni Presidents & all other IITians,

It is shocking to find not one of the IITs or any of its alumni associations inside or outside India had the same morality & ethics to stand up in support of Sanjiv Bhatt, Rahul Sharma, Satish Verma and Dr Mukul Sinha [all IITians] who need this support most today the way they did for Arvind Kejriwal and his team Anna. Reason is simple – These fours are under threat for their lives after taking the criminal Chief Minister Narender Modi head on by adhering to the Constitution of India they have been sworn to protect and preserve. While Kejriwal is under no such threat. All IITs stood up in his team’s support which was the right thing to do at that instance. Isn`t raising voices of support for these four IITians far more important, urgent and need of the hour?

My association with IITs dates back to IIT Kharagpur as a resident of Vidyasagar Hall in 1974 to my days at IIT Delhi between 1975-85 as a student and having worked as Senior Research Associate there. I find the moral pedestal at which IITs placed themselves by supporting Kejriwal’s Team Anna has fallen flat by finding an eerie silence with respect to Sanjiv Bhatt, Rahul Sharma, Satish Verma and Dr Mukul Sinha despite my raising this with some very senior IITians here in Canada and otherwise almost 10 days back.

While being in IITs I always found a subtle support for RSS & BJP cohorts through various modes such as its NSS activities (I can name the RSS activists faculty running it but that is not the objective here). But now by supporting Kejriwal`s Team Anna and simultaneously not raising our voices in support of Sanjiv Bhatt, Rahul Sharma, Satish Verma and Dr Mukul Sinha only proves IITs have remained hot bed of these political & communal organizations for decades. This act is just a confirmation of the same coming out in no uncertain terms.

While writing to all of you I have made sure this email goes to all the major and senior proven secular nationalist correspondents of India as I am certain no voice in support of these four IITians will be raised even after sending this appeal to all of you for reasons given above. Hence the outside world must know what is the reality of the IITs when it comes to supporting the “REAL UP RIGHT, HONEST, SECULAR AND NATIONALIST IITians whose life is under threat.

Regards,
Ahmad Cameron
B.Sc & M.Sc Phy AMU
MTech & PhD IIT Delhi
Brampton ON
Canada

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Interview with Shweta Bhatt: ‘What wrong has Sanjiv done? Truth will prevail’

Arrested IPS officer, Sanjiv Bhatt is the only child of his parents. But unlike most of such single children who grow up in a pampered environment, Sanjiv Bhatt had a strict disciplinary regime during his childhood. A trained engineer from the IIT, Bhatt, described by many of his colleagues as a man with nerves of steel also known for “standing up” against authorities that be. Many of his colleagues say he will prefer to “break rather than bow.” The buzz in Gujarat is that the chief minister Narendra Modi has finally met his nemesis in Bhatt.

Known for his steely resolve, Bhatt has been in the news for his statements and actions against the acts of commission and omission of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi during the Gujarat genocide of 2002. Bhatt was finally arrested on 30th September. His bail plea will now be heard on Monday the 17th October.

A poster in support of Sanjiv Bhatt

Meanwhile, his wife Shweta has also gone through some real traumatizing and distressing times. But if Sanjiv is a “Man of Steel”, then his better half, Shweta is a “Woman of Steel.” Rising to the extremely challenging times with her two children Shweta displayed courage by giving a tough fight. Shweta is going all out to extend the much needed support for her what most legal experts and officers believe wrongly jailed husband Sanjiv Bhatt.

Perhaps many may not be aware but Shweta is an arts (BA) and law graduate (LLB) and also has a master’s degree in law (LLM). Shweta is also a trained dancer in different classical forms of dances like the Bharatnatyam, Kuchipudi and Odyssey dances.

Shweta is extremely busy with a non-stop stream of visitors in the form of journalists, well-wishers, actors, political leaders, officials, activists, friends and relatives from far and near coming to support her and her husband in these times of extreme duress. Shweta took some time off to speak to Rafat Nayeem Quadri.

Please describe your husband (Sanjiv Bhatt) as a person.

Shweta Bhatt: He is one of the nicest persons I have known and an excellent officer. Sanjiv loves life and enjoys every bit of it in all its hues and forms. Perhaps that is precisely the reason why he is adored by not only his mother, me his wife, my children and my relatives and all his relatives but also by his co-officers, his colleagues at various levels and the public with whom he has dealt during his career. He is a very strict disciplinarian. He is a very strong man who has lived his life with commitment and perfection. Let me give you a small example. Sanjiv loves his daily walk. And he will walk come rain or sunshine. He is also a voracious reader and a sensitive poet. He took the pains of learning Urdu to appreciate poetry. He also loves to play different games and he enjoys life without having any vices like smoking and drinking.

You have alleged about the ‘dirty role’ of the State and have directly accused Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi for his ‘misdeeds’ as you call it?

Shweta Bhatt: Yes, it is on his orders and under his guidance that the State Home Ministry and State Police works and Sanjiv has spoken against him and the policing. So, we are facing the wrath.

Are you afraid and scared that your husband has taken up a fight with a very ‘strong and popular’ leader like Narendra Modi? Why were you so upset for last two weeks?

Shweta Bhatt: The way and the manner in which the police came to arrest my husband was horrendous. They came as if they had come to arrest some hardened criminal. What wrong my husband has done? Almost everybody knows he is being punished for speaking the truth which is inconvenient to the powers that be. We his family are being traumatized and tortured by way of harassment. The police whisked him up and behaved with him as if he was a dreaded terrorist. The way and the manner in which he was treated and kept at the police station was again as if he was he was a killer terrorist. Is this the way an IPS officer is treated in a democratic country? And what followed after was a nightmare.

What happened? Were you scared? Why?

Shweta Bhatt: The night of 30th September was so very difficult for me and my family. It was indeed a terrible night and an unending night and we were all in tears. I was extremely terrified, scared and sad. For some time I also thought that maybe they will ‘eliminate’ him. But as the night progressed and the dawn came a feeling of great strength and courage also enveloped me and my children. I firmly believe that justice will eventually prevail. However, powerful and mighty one can be – nobody is beyond law and law will take its course of action.

Almost 15 days have passed by to Sanjiv Bhatt’s arrest. Are you satisfied with the way law is taking its course in hearing the bail application?

Shweta Bhatt: Oh, certainly not. I have a firm faith and belief in the Indian legal system. But what happens in Gujarat remains to be seen. Powerful people are beyond all laws, rules and regulations. There are also no rules when someone powerful decides to “teach a lesson to someone.” There is no law for people like Modi. Whatever he (Modi) wants he is doing. There is no one to ask him. He is not answerable to anyone. Why so, I ask all of you, what wrong has my husband done? Secondly I am also very sad at the plight of his “friends” and “colleagues” who were all so friendly and full of praise for him. But since his arrest they have apparently all gone into hiding.

Shweta Bhatt (Right) with Rafat Nayeem Quadri, Editor, Bilkul fortnightly

You mean to say that his friends and acquaintances have left you all alone?

Shweta Bhatt: Not so, they are with us. Many are approaching us but not through open doors and not publicly. Obviously they seem to be scared and afraid of the State authority.

Why so?

Shweta Bhatt: May be Sanjiv’s friends are apprehensive that if they come out in the open, they will also be trargetted and persecuted just like Sanjiv. They also fear that they may jeopardize their careers. They also fear shunting out to remote places or cases being filed against them. Everyone knows what is happening in Gujarat. But I am thankful to all the people who have extended their love and support to us during this time of crises. Goodness is very much there in this world which sheds the unfair ambience around always. I firmly believe in God. My aged mother-in-law and my father and my family and my two young children we are all supportive of each other. We have great friends and supporters who are coming to us. Many of the people I have never ever met in my life have come out and supported me while many people I knew and met almost every day have gone into hiding. But I am sure, one day; they will all come. Because again everyone including the people who are out to tarnish my husband know very well Sanjiv has done no wrong.

You have also alleged that police have ill treated your family?

Shweta Bhatt: Yes. The very way and manner of arresting and officer like Sanjiv and putting him in a dingy cell has been very humiliating. The police also carried out ‘search’ at my house in the most deplorable manner. They misbehaved with me and my family and seemed to be deriving some sadistic pleasure out of it. They didn’t leave even my 86-year-old mother-in-law and even her house was ‘searched’. It was all unimaginable and unthinkable. It was beyond what is shown in Bollywood movies. Even the manner in which my statement was taken was very insulting. They left no chance to humiliate, insult and give pain to us. There was no iota of decency with them.

How did your children react?

Shweta Bhatt: Both my children, Aakashi, a final year MBBS student studying in Mumbai and Shantanu a 12th science student at the St. Xavier’s Loyola Hall are just like their father — bold and fearless. Both of them were writing tests when the police cracked down on their father. We are waiting for justice to prevail and goodness to show up. We are eagerly waiting for Sanjiv to be back with us.

(The interviewer Rafat Nayeem Quadri is the first lady journalist of Gujarat to have launched an English Fortnightly newspaper from Gujarat. She is Editor and CEO of BILKUL and can be contacted at rafatquadri@gmail.com)

Sanjeev Bhatt’s Facebook page buzzing with supporting messages

Mumbai: Not only citizens’ groups, policitcal parties and NGOs but common man has also come out in support of IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt, a crucial witness in several cases in which Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other senior functionaries of the Gujarat government are accused of conspiring to commit mass crimes, destroying evidence and subverting the course of justice.

I Support Sanjiv Bhatt

“I Support Sanjiv Bhatt, Do You?”. “Every hour, every minute and every second of the day we are praying for you.” Such emotional and supportive messages of common people can be found on the Facebook page of Sanjeev Bhatt who was arrested on 30th September.

Today is Dusshera, a religious festival where Hindus celebrate the victory of Lord Ram over Ravana — the day is also known for the victory of Good over Evil. The messages related to Dusshera is also pouring in.

“DASERA THYA HAJU RAVAN MARATO NATHI.?KEM” which means Today is Dusshera why Ravan does not die? The other message is to condone Shweta, wife of Sanjeev Bhatt. “The entire nation trusting truth is with you madum Shewtha Bhatt, take it as a challenge, the goddess kali will make evil Modi’s destruction. This is the age of fast track – each sin of evil persons will result in swift reactions. The sin committed by modi in arresting truth will result in bad situations for modi. That is truth Jai Mahakali.”

Some messages have complaints against the inaction or insufficient action of the Central Government and also urge the civil society to support the upright officers like him. A message reads, “Why the whole nation has closed their eyes against the arrest of an Upright officer.” It also suggests the intervention of the Central government to provide security to his family.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz, famous Urdu Poet is also quoted. “Bol k lab aazaad hain tere, bol zabaan ab tak terii hai , teraa sutawaan jism hai teraa, bol ki jaan ab tak terii hai , bol ye thodaa waqt bahot hai jism-o-zabaa.N kii maut se pahale, bol ki sach zindaa hai ab tak ,bol jo kuchh kahna hai kah le.

Social activist Shabnam Hashmi, social activist and TV anchor Adil Mohammed, Dalit scholar and activist Prasad Chacko, are some of the prominent personalities who have posted their supportive messages on Sanjeev Bhatt’s wall.

Link:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/sanjeevbhatt/

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My husband is being treated like a ‘terrorist’, says Sanjiv Bhatt’s wife

Ahmedabad, October 06: The wife of arrested IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who had testified against Narendra Modi in the post-Godhra riots case, has written a second letter to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram alleging that her husband was being treated like a “terrorist” by the Gujarat police.

In the letter, she has also accused the State government of using all possible ways to deny bail to her husband.

Shweta, wife of Mr. Sanjiv Bhatt, had written her first letter to Mr. Chidambaram a few days ago saying that there was danger to the life of the IPS officer from the “vindictive administration”.

In her second letter on Wednesday, she has said that her husband was being treated like a terrorist despite he neither being a serial offender nor a criminal.

She said she has just come to know that Mr. Bhatt was kept in a dingy, filthy, stinking room in the city crime branch lock-up after he was arrested on September 30. She further alleged that he was kept in the room with hardened criminals without food and water.

Ms. Shweta has also enclosed a CD which, according to her, contains video footage purportedly showing how Bhatt was being “ill-treated”.

Mr. Bhatt was arrested on the basis of an FIR filed against him by police constable K D Pant for allegedly threatening and forcing him to sign a false affidavit with regard to a meeting called by Chief Minister Narendra Modi on February 27, 2002, hours after the Godhra train carnage.

Expressing apprehensions about more false cases being concocted against the arrested IPS officer, his wife has once again raised the point of his safety saying, “I am terribly concerned about the life and liberty of my husband.”

She said looking at the treatment given to Mr. Bhatt so far, Gujarat police could go out of the way to victimise him further.

In the letter, she has also alleged that Gujarat police had used derogatory and insulting language while conducting searches at her residence after Mr. Bhatt’s arrest.

In an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, Bhatt had alleged that Mr. Modi had asked the police at a meeting after the Godhra train carnage to allow the majority community to vent their anger against Muslims.

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Gujarat Governor urged to ensure release of Sanjeev Bhatt

Mumbai: Farid Ahmed Khan, President of Mumbai-based human rights organization ‘Indians for Justice’, has shot a letter to Gujarat Governor Dr. Kamla Beniwal seeking her intervention to ensure immediate release of IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt and his as well as his family‘s safety.

In the letter, Mr. Khan termed Bhatt’s arrest as intimidation of an important witness in 2002 Gujarat riots and demanded dismissal of Chief Minister Narendra Modi so that he would not be able to suppress the voice of justice further.

“Mr. Sanjeev Bhatt, a senior IPS officer and a key witness in the Zakia Ahsan Jafri criminal complaint against Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 61 others accused in the unfortunate Gujarat riots, has been unjustly arrested. This is a clear case of direct intimidation of an important witness and this action of Gujarat Police under the direct instructions of Chief Minister Narendra Modi amounts to tampering with evidence and also an unjust attempt to tarnish the character and standing of an honest officer who chose to speak against abdication of responsibility by the so-called leaders of the masses” Mr. Khan writes.

“The fact cannot be ignored that Sanjeev Bhatt had challenged the FIR on the basis of which he was arrested through Writ Petition135/2011 in Supreme Court for which the Supreme Court had issued notice to the Gujarat Government on 29.7.2011. Thus, this seems to be like a hasty and desperate attempt by the Gujarat police which is overtly vindictive as the matter is still under consideration of the Apex Court and as such raises serious concerns of contempt of the highest court of the land” he further writes.

Mr Khan has demanded immediate release of Sanjeev Bhatt, his and his family’s safety, safeguard of whistle-blowers and dismissal/arrest of Narendra Modi so that he could not subvert justice further.

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Arrested Gujarat cop Sanjiv Bhatt’s wife writes to Chidambaram, seeks help

AHMEDABAD: The wife of Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who has taken on chief minister Narendra Modi, has written a letter to Union home minister P Chidambaram pleading for help.

In her letter to the home minister, Sanjiv Bhatt’s wife Shweta has detailed how her husband is being targeted by the state government and has urged the Centre to ensure his safety.

She has complained to the home minister that the Gujarat government was using cops to implicate her husband.

Speaking to media, Shweta Bhatt said that her husband was being victimised for speaking the truth.

She said that she fears for Sanjiv’s life as the state police has been acting in a vindictive way. Shweta said that the police officers took her husband on the context of questioning her and arrested him.

Shweta said that her husband was being physically and mentally tortured. He is being kept in a shabby cell in the prison.

Meanwhile, a local court here has issued notice to the Gujarat government on the bail plea of Bhatt, who was arrested on Friday on the basis of an FIR lodged against him on charges of threatening and fabricating evidence.

Bhatt was arrested on the basis of the FIR filed against him by police constable K D Pant for allegedly threatening him and forcing to sign a false affidavit with regard to a meeting called by chief minister Narendra Modi on February 27, 2002, hours after the Godhra train carnage.

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New chief for Ishrat Jahan probe team

Gandhinagar : The Gujarat High Court Friday appointed a new head for its special investigation team (SIT) probing the Ishrat Jahan suspected staged shoot-out case.

A bench of Justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari appointed J.V. Ramudu, an Indian Police Service officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre, to replace Satyapal Singh, of the Maharashtra cadre, after the central government opined that the latter should be relieved.

Satyapal Singh had shown “unwillingness” to probe the case and intended to quit last month. He had moved an application seeking the same before the court.

Assistant Solicitor General P.S. Champaneri stated before the court that the central government has decided to relieve the Mahrashtra Police officer of the task.

The bench however noted that it doesn’t want further hurdles in the probe and warned the central government to have “a better command” over its officers.

Champaneri assured the court that whatever happened in past would not be repeated. He said the Andhra government has agreed to spare the officer and he would be available for the probe. The court then directed Ramudu to take up his new assignment at the earliest.

Karnail Singh, the first head of the SIT, opted out after his transfer to a charge in a north-eastern state. Thereafter Satyapal Singh, who replaced him, had also shown reluctance to investigate the case citing “language problems”.

During the hearing, the court also took a serious note of witnesses’ retractions. “It appears from the record that witnesses are retracting from their statements. This is a very serious issue when investigation is at a very crucial stage,” Justice Patel said.

In this context, he said that whether they were retracting on their own or someone was forcing them was a matter of investigation.

Mukul Sinha, counsel for Gopinath Pillai, the father of Pranesh Pillai, who was killed along with Ishrat, submitted that there seems to be a systematic approach behind such retractions. He requested the court to provide protection to the witnesses.

He further sought registration of a fresh FIR in the case. The court said it would not be required at the present stage.

Sinha also sought that an action taken report regarding the present investigation should be placed before the court and made available to the parties. However the court said it can be decided at a later stage.

Advocate General Kamal Trivedi submitted before the bench that the state would like to file a reply to an application moved by Gopinath Pillai.

Upon the court’s query about forensic reports in the case, Champaneri said the teams were busy in Mumbai after the recent bomb blasts there and it would take some time.

The court then granted three weeks time and posted the matter for hearing on Aug 5.

Mumbai girl Ishrat Jahan and others were allegedly killed by Gujarat Police in an staged shoot-out on June 15, 2004, and portrayed to be Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives on a mission to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

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